I am confused with the root port and designated port in STP..whats the difference and how does it work?

A non-root bridge will have three types of ports.

The first port will be the Root Port and this will be the best path to the Root Bridge from this bridge. See my answer to your next question. All other active ports will either be a designated port or an alternate or backup port. An alternate or backup port is a port that also leads to the Root Bridge, but does not provide the best path to the Root Bridge. An alternative or backup port will not carry customer data from this bridge. Any other active port will be a designated port and this is a port that is connected to a bridge that is further downstream from the Root Bridge. So a Root Port and Alternate ports will connect to the upstream bridge's designated port. It may not be obvious but the Root Bridge does not have Root Ports, Alternate Ports nor Backup Ports, it can only have Designated ports.

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Designated Port Stp

One is the designated port for a given network segment, and the other one points toward the root bridge. One way to think of it, is if the port is up and connected to a "branch" of the tree, then it's a designated port of the switch for that "branch". If the port is facing towards the root, and it's the switch's best path to the root, then it's a "root" port. Also, on a root bridge, since all of its ports are moving away from the root (itself) and towards the branches, all of its ports will be designated ports and not root ports. Make sense?

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Read this.

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http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rt...

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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/03/30...

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